Hollywood Warns It May Stop Taking Sewage From Pines

January 17, 1985|By Stephen Wissink, Staff Writer

HOLLYWOOD — An ongoing feud with Pembroke Pines flared again last week when city commissioners threatened to stop accepting sewage from western Pembroke Pines within 12 months, including sewage from the massive Century Village condominium project.

But Pembroke Pines City Manager Woody Hampton repeated his contention that Hollywood is obligated to accept the sewage until September 1987.

``We have a good contract with them,`` Hampton said.

Hollywood commissioners, however, said they may file suit to break the contract in 12 months on grounds that Pembroke Pines negotiated in bad faith.

``We should at least make a strong gesture that our hospitality was not greeted the way it was promised to be,`` said Hollywood Commissioner John Williams.

Hollywood Vice Mayor Stanley Goldman said Hollywood was ``induced`` into believing Pembroke Pines would comply with Hollywood`s verbal conditions of the contract.

The feud centers on a Dec. 27 decision by Pembroke Pines to eventually dispose of sewage from the city`s western area through a method known as deep well injection.

The process, in which treated sewage is pumped 3,000 feet beneath the Biscayne Aquifer, has been approved by the state.

Hollywood, which contends that deep well injection is unproven and could pollute South Florida`s primary source of drinking water, wanted Pembroke Pines to send treated sewage through a series of pipelines into the Atlantic Ocean.

Pembroke Pines Mayor Charles Flanagan promised a year ago that his city would accept the pipeline method and reject deep-well injection.

In return, Hollywood agreed to use its pipeline system to dispose of sewage from Century Village and other western developments for three years, while Pembroke Pines built transmission lines to permanently hook into the Hollywood system.